Drosera.) DROSERACE&. 471 
truncate. Fruit of 4 many-seeded follicles. Seeds oblong, ellip- 
soid, longitudinally ribbed. 
Leaves obovate-elliptic, crenate ; sepals oblong, acute, standing apart at 
base heterophylla. 
Leaves pinnatifid, laciniate, lobes entire, subserrate or dentate ; sepals 
lanceolate, subpatent Pi denelbacdddnectecipuentven int 
749, KALANCHOE HETEROPHYLLA Prain. K. floribunda var. glabra 
F. B. 1. ii, 415. Cotyledon heterophylla F. I. ii. 456. 
Chota Nagpur, Parasnath. 
A stout, fleshy herb. 
750. KaLANcHoE LactntaTa DC.; F. B. I. ii. 415; E. D. K. 14. 
Cotyledon laciniata F., I. ii. 456. 
ar; E. Bengal 
A stout, fleshy herb. Vernac. Hemsagar. 
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Order L, DROSERACEE. 
Herbs, rarely somewhat woody below, perennial, usually small, 
generally glandular-hairy, and insectivorous. Leaves often rosu- 
i er. 
e 
connate below, imbricate. Stamens 4-20, hypogynous oF 
Perigynous, rarely epipetalous; filaments free or occasionally 
connate below, subulate or filiform ; anthers basifixed or versatile ; 
dehiscence completely or partially longitudinal, extrorse. Ovary 
or only adnate to calyx at the base, globose or ovoid, Ant 
locular ; styles 8-5; stigmas capitate, 2-fid, or fimbriate ; ovules 
humerous, rarely few, attached to parietal, axial, or basal placentas, 
rarely pendulous, anatropous. Fruit a membranous or submem- 
branous, usually loculicidal, 3-5-valved capsule. Seeds numerous, 
rely few or solitary, in each loculus; albumen fleshy; embryo 
axial, cylindric, or basal, minute. 
ti glandular, hairy, those of stem, if present, alternate .-.Drosera. 
Yes Vesicular, glabrous, those of stem opposite «.+-++-- .... Aldrovanda. 
316. Drosera Linn. 
oo glandular, pilose herbs, the glandular hairs partly 
“rived from tissues beneath the epidermis ; leaves rosulate, basal, 
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